Maurice Damois

(France)

Comics biography about Raymond Radiguet

Maurice Damois was a French illustrator who mainly worked for the communist press. He made a comics biography of the French communist resistance hero 'Colonel Fabien' for Ohé, Les Jeunes in 1950. Then, between 1950 and 1952, he made vertical and horizontal strips for newspapers like Ce Soir ('Les Disparus de Panoyaux', 'Le Tomahawk d'Or', 'La Dame de Montsoreau', 'La Rose Noir'), L'Humanité ('Ascanio'), Le Patriote (Balzac and Dumas adaptations) and La Terre (comic strip biographies) in cooperation with several writers.